Show DEER KilLED TO TOSA TOSME SAVE SAfE SA fE LIVESTOCK P Pro r f Y vent e 11 t i ion 0 11 Measures Against Foot and an Mouth Disease The Tile foot and mouth mo th disease which disease which sneaked Into California through garbage from forn ships from the Orient fed to hogs near the tho Mare Iare Island navy yard early In 1924 was conquered but at the enormous cost of nearly seven million dollars an and l 1111 sacrifice of more than one hun hundred tred thou thou- thousand thou sand sand domestic animals A A bulletin of o the American Pro Pro- Protective Pro Protective association says that It may not be ho generally generall known that this epidemic Invasion also cost the thc lives lVIS of more moro th n two twenty twenty thousand l wild deer of ot the Sierra Nevada levada mountains This Is not an estimate or a mere niece guess at the number of o deer l lost st These leer deer were deliberate deliberately and intentional Intentional- intentionally ly hunted and slaughtered In or- or order order or order der to chock check the spread of or the disease which had been found to have obtained a foot bold among them The fhe The entire campaign or of or eradication eradication cation of ot the tho disease was or co coordinated under an officer of or the theU theU theU U S department of agriculture which Included the stamping tamping out tho or of the infection tho ho deer was nothIng of ot It In lit the California had sur- sur suf suffered fored ferId tremendously from rear fear fear and hysteria In the early stages ot of the disease invasion Therefore news Iwas suppressed while the eradication process was goinG on After it was discovered that the deer doer had become Lecome Infected It was decided to take drastic drastic mea mea- mca entire sores aures and destro destroy the lie entire herd herdIn herdIn herdIn In the tho affected district if it neeta- neeta necessary necessary sary It was estimated that It might mean incan the Il sacrifice of or ten thousand animals but so 80 much larger was tine the herd than all esti- estimated esti estimated mated that more than double that number was actually killed This was the tue first Instance on record of the th Infection of wild deer with this disease and there was no precedent to go by Ly In dealing with It three Forty Forty camps camI s of hunters each contain contain- containIng containing ing log from three to ten hunters were established forming a cor- cor cordon cor cordon don encircling the entire infect Infect- Infected Infected infected ed area The fhe work of suppression sion alon began in 1124 1924 and b by the sI spring of 1925 all instances of Infection had disappeared I The he deer destroyed were ero killed by shooting and sto to some extent by poisoning under carefully con con- controlled controlled con controlled trolled methods The exact num num- number ber of deer killed was aU all of which were examined by vet vet- vet veterinarians and slightly over ten per pr cent or 2179 animals found to be bo actually infected I The area affected by the tir disease Infection included the National forest and a portion of Yosemite National park Fortunately the th work worl of eradication eradication eradication cation was complete and effective and tho the disease was completely stampe stamped l out Had it not been It would undoubtedly have spread through tho the adjoining ranges of the wild deer Into Nevada and Or Oregon gon and from flom them to time the do- do do domestic cattle callie and heel cheep all al through the mountain states Handled as aa asit asit It was seas in such lIuch an effective and drastic manner the eI epidemic did not spread beyond the borders or of California either cither among wild or domestic animals |